Finding out the location	easy
Access	easy
Safety	unsafe
Risk of being seen	high
General condition of the place	bad
Traces of vandalism	few
Good place for taking pictures?	very good
Did you see other people?	none or very few

Visit date    June 15 2019 at 1 hr
Visit duration    1 hour

Exploring this abandoned dairy farm and farmhouse was a blast. There was a lot of outbuildings, silos and a large farmhouse even a dead Raccoon! Thanks to @myeyes_explorations (Instagram) for sharing this cool place with me.

There is a lot of history on this property and I was told a developer bought the property years ago and it has just been sitting abandoned.

There is actually a plaque by the main driveway that I missed and was overgrown that reads.


In 1826 George Dinwoody and his wife, the Thomas Duff family and Samuel McClain, all from County Monaghan, Ireland, walked from York via Yonge Street across the Great Swap to Essa Township. The settled on this property, deeded to Dinwoody by the Crown. Until Duff and McClain took up land in Concessions 9 and 8 immediately to the west. Their original log cabin, the birth place of William Dinwoody, the first white child born in Essa, subsequently served as a church, school, Orange lodge and council meeting place. The brick residence in the township, built on this farm in 1843, was destroyed by fire in 1906 and the present house was constructed on the same foundation the following year.
Erected by the Essa Historical Society with assistance of Ontario Ministry of Culture and Recreation 1981.



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